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Dr. Shelly BatraOperation ASHA

Dr. Shelly Batra, the founder and president of Operation ASHA, is a gynecologist and obstetrician in New Delhi, India. For the past two decades, she has provided consultations and performed free surgeries for the poor. She is the author of two books published by Penguin India, is a fellow guide and professor in the gynecology department at Batra Hospital, the largest private hospital in New Delhi, and was named an Ashoka Changemaker. She earned medical and master’s degrees from King George’s Medical College, Lucknow, India.

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After serving Delhi’s slum dwellers for more than a decade with free surgeries, Dr. Shelly Batra realized her work wasn’t sustainable. That’s when she and Sandeep Ahuja decided to start an organization focused on only one health problem in India: TB.

Dr. Shelly Batra had it all, including a job at a plush corporate hospital with the best equipment. But when she gathered her courage one day and entered a New Delhi slum, her life changed forever. She ended up returning to the slum time after time to treat the sick, and eventually that led to her "dream job" at Operation ASHA.